Overshoe.



HENRY METZ, OF BASCOM, OHIO.

OVERSHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 190'?.

Application tiled July 23,1906. Serial No. 327,435.

To all whom it may concern:

dental slipping or pulling oft' especially in event oi" stepping in the mud, or otherwise, and to effect the reinforcement or strengthening ot' the overshoe.

It consists of certain structural features or instrumentalities substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention-Figure l is a' longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 2 is a broken side view showing more especially the heel-portion of the overshoe with the metal or Wire retaining device or contrivance in place thereon. FigA 3 is a detached perspective of said retaining device.

In carrying out my invention, I secure in the usual rubber overshoe l, around the heel-portion or hindquarter, near its upper edge and in under the lining, a retaining contrivance or device 2 oi stout or stiff spring wire, the same also passing under the counter portion of the overshoe as shown, for guarding, as above noted, against the latter accidentally pulling or slipping ofi, particularly, as would be liable to happen in stepping in the mud. Said device or contrivance, it is apparent, has the effect to cause the overshoe, immediately at the back-edge of its heel-portion, to bind upon the foot-shoe at that point, which principally serves, together with the lateral pressure also exerted thereby upon the overshoe, to effectively prevent the overshoe accidentally slipping or pulling of under the conditions aforesaid. Said retaining dev ice, is also so contrived as to press inwardly upon the lateral edges oi the counter oi the overshoe and thus aid in retaining it tightly upon the shoe worn upon the foot and further aid in preventing the overshoe slipping ofi the former. Also extending from around the toe-end of the overshoe, upon the inside, tothe counter from both sides, particularly when the overshoe isoi the low-cut character as herein shown, I suitably secure a non-elastic band 3 of some suitable textile material, to guard the overshoe at the points along which it is placed, as for instance opposite to which the edges of the soles oi the foot-shoe come, said non-elastic strip interposing between said shoesoles and the rubber of the overshoe and thus preventing the stretching of the latter by the shoe-sole as would otherwise be the case.

I claim A rubber overshoe, equipped with a continuous stout spring-wire with its lateral portions embedded in the corresponding portions of the shoe upper and its lower transverse portion likewise applied to, and extending across the counter, said wire having its upper portion encompassing the upper back part of the shoe-heel.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY METZ.

Witnesses z E. E. WILLIAMS, EMMA J. GnArns. 

